Thursday, November 20, 2014

Things

These past couple of weeks have been a whirlwind. All good things, but just so much work going on, and painting so many things. Ha.

I just thought I'd do a quick little "check in " post, since I don't have time for much more...

As I've mentioned a few times, I'm helping a client/neighbor out with some decorating. We are in the beginning stages, but it's been fun to see a few design ideas executed over the past few weeks. We got some cool roman shades made:

I love this fabric.

and also for the master bathroom:

I love that the orange in these shades brings in the wood tone from the hand made countertop we did in there.

(before they were installed, but I was super excited to see how awesome they looked in the truck)

They're rough oak (I think) and stained a medium/dark stain. They are Parsons style and there are 6 of them, stretching up to a ten foot wall. Pretty amazing. I have to get over there during the day to snap some proper photos of them, but they're in my client's office (She has a million books):

They're on an orange wall which is a little alcove, perfect for built in bookshelves. I am beyond happy with how they turned out.

I am also working on a wallpaper pattern style hand painted bedroom this week. It's in a beautiful old house (thats being restored) and it's been fun to be there. Here is the sample I made

we will be tweaking it a bit, but here is what it looks like in there so far:

Circles circles circles. woo!

I also painted this table a high gloss white this week:

It's going to be really pretty. It's just a French provincial 70's piece, but this new white lacquer coat is going to give it new life.

I really like the blinds too :) they look soo good. She is lucky to have you for a neighbor. Did you make the blinds yourself? I can't remember if you make those or have them made. You are a worker bee. It will be interesting to see the circle wall finished. You sure do a large variety of work. You have a good Thursday also. Alison

OK, my turn for a question....when you lacquer a piece, do you spray it on? I don't recall you ever mentioning that you spray furniture pieces. I guess I just assumed you painted furniture with a brush or roller.

I do! Well, it depends, sometimes I spray and sometimes I don't, but usually I do. If the piece is small, then I usually hand paint, if it's large, I spray. Larger planes, in general, need to be sprayed.